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5. The Paris Years, 1625-1628
Libertine Paris 135
The Discovery of the Law of Refraction 139
Mersenne, Mechanism, and the Problem of Naturalism 146
The Return to the Regulae, 1626 152
The Nature of Cognition 158
The Representation of Algebra 172
The Final Year in Paris 181
6. A New Beginning, 1629-1630
The Retreat from Society 187
Grinding the Anaclastic 190
The Formulation of a Metaphysics 195
The Pappus Problem and the Classification of Curves 210
Parhelia and the Origins of Le Monde 217
The Dispute with Beeckman 222
7. A New System of the World, 1630-1633
The Structure of Le Monde 226
A Corpuscular Theory of Matter 228
The Laws of Nature 237
The Construction of a New World 249
The Nature of Light 256
A Mechanistic Physiology 269
Automata and Perceptual Cognition 276
The Condemnation of Galileo and the Abandonment of
Le Monde 		290
8. The Years of Consolidation, 1634-1640
Amsterdam, 1634-1635 293
An Exercise in Autobiography, 1635-1636 304
Scepticism and the Foundations of a New Metaphysics 309
Publication and Critical Response 321
An Indian Summer, 1637-1639 332
Meditationes de Prima Philosophia 336
Public Brawl and Personal Grief, 1639-1640 352
9. The Defence of Natural Philosophy, 1640-1644
Religious Controversy 354
Recherche de la verité versus Principia Philosophiae 361
A Textbook of Natural Philosophy 364
The Task of Legitimation 377
The Legacy of the Principia 380
10. Melancholia and the Passions, 1643-1650
'A Doctor of the Soul' 384

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